Fox and Butterfly (177013)

Chapter 17

Fragile feelings

Saki started telling Wendy everything. She talked about her first date with Hayato, how she felt so lonely, and how she wanted to be a happy and bright part of the world. Gradually, dark days appeared in Saki's mind. Saki remembers the first time she went to the hotel with her client, she felt very scared. About how she felt embarrassed about being bullied at school. And then when she got home, she was raped by her father and kicked out by her mother.

Since then, her life has gradually slid into the abyss. Everything just got worse. Saki was stuck in a loop of drugs and sex. The more she struggled to get out, the deeper she was pulled. When those wicked teenagers repeatedly kicked her in the stomach, Saki thought that Hana was dead. She was so desperate and lost all hope. Perhaps death was the only option that could free her from the agony she was enduring.

Wendy's eyes gradually sank into the darkness with her face lowered. She held the coffee cup with a trembling hand, trying to take a sip. Not only her hands, but her whole body seemed to be shaking slightly. Was she scared?

No, she wasn't scared at all. She was very angry.

The fury welled up in her chest, fanning a flame of hatred. Wendy gritted her teeth to control her anger. Her hand squeezed the coffee cup so hard that it could shatter in her palm at any moment. Her mind was quickly dominated by the killing instinct of a wild animal.

Wendy wanted to kill people, everyone who made Saki suffer like this. Maybe those bastards aren't human anymore. But it doesn't matter, she will tear them to pieces. She will bathe in their blood. She will give them the slowest and most painful death, and they will have to beg her to let them die. Then she will look at their eyes, and...

- Hey, Wendy! Wendy! Are you okay, Wendy? - Saki tilted her head, asking Wendy nervously. Though the story ended for a while, Wendy didn't say anything at all. Saki looked deeply into Wendy's eyes, trying to figure out what she was thinking.

The soft and worried voice from Saki startled Wendy, quickly waking her up from the rage. Wendy hastily covered her face with the coffee cup, trying to hide her deadly eyes behind it.

- No! Ah ye-yes! I'm fine. I'm really fine! - Wendy gasped, trying to fill her lungs with fresh air to soothe her anger. If it weren't for Saki to wake her up, she would have turned into a furious beast within seconds.

Wendy tried to breathe steadily to stabilize her heart rate. In just a brief moment, the anger was immediately locked inside her chest. Controlling emotions was one of the things Wendy does very well, second only to killing. That was because she always wipes out all emotions from her heart before they can have a chance to bloom. An empty heart filled with adrenaline was what keeps Wendy alive in this criminal world, not those fragile emotions.

- So, you just followed a stranger on the first meeting? Don't you know that every stranger is a danger, Saki? - Wendy asked Saki, with a hint of sadness and anger in her voice.

Living in a world full of criminals, the people around Wendy if not business partners will only be potential dangers. Saki's carelessness was a deadly mistake, especially in this corrupt world.

- I don't... I really don't know. I thought that he was nice, and... and he can help me. - Saki responded hesitantly, with the slight trembling in her words.

- Nice? No fucking nice guy will give you drugs, Saki. Don't you see that he just wants to mess your mind up? He drugs you so he can be able to control you easier, to make money from your body. - The anger inside Wendy's chest gradually rekindled. Her tone was starting to lose control.